baldyman27
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its the senior folks who should come up with these changes and lets face it they probably see no problem with whats happening at the moment.
Or don't want to see maybe?
its the senior folks who should come up with these changes and lets face it they probably see no problem with whats happening at the moment.
who knows?Or don't want to see maybe?
So the reason that social welfare offices are on overtime this week and the past few months is not to try and pay as many of the newly unemployed before Xmas but, rather, to 'protect' a budget that will be, in any case, slashed next year due to economic downturn?
That is not what he is saying.
I have seen it and been and been told the same my self. Many departments/areas/quangoes go on a spending spree to use up the budget, on the ‘Use it or lose it principle’.
For example, I have seen whole offices equipped with brand new top end 'Gaming PCs', for want of a better word. They would have cost 2 or 3 times the price of an average PC. I queried this, as writing Word Documents and a bit of Excel etc was all they were going to be used for. With a straight face, I was told that “We had left over cash in the budget and if we did not use it up, we would lose it next year.”
no i do not agree with that at all. Whoever is buying €€€ worth of stuff that is not needed then just to spend a budget then they are at fault.If so, surely its the department that's at fault for not properly governing the various councils, etc.
no i do not agree with that at all. Whoever is buying €€€ worth of stuff that is not needed then just to spend a budget then they are at fault.
This "systemic failure" BS actually sends me into orbit - whatever happened to individuals being responsible for their actions.
No other perks in the Public Service ?eh?
What about guaranteed pensions, sick day quotas, virtually unsackable, no performance criteria, and able to get through recessions without the all consuming worry that all the rest of us have?
Give me a break!
However out of my friends who work in the private sector almost all of them finished up on Friday 19th and are not back until Jan 5th yet they only have to take 4 days of their annual leave.
If I was to take that amount of time off I would have to take 7 days annual leave.
I'd love to know where your friends work , because I don't know any private sector employer with these conditions.
Well I am only stating what they told me the other day. The building I work in houses my dept and 8 other private offices. 6 out of those 8 offices closed on Friday and are not open until Monday 5th Jan.
i imagine they, like me, have to take the days off in their annual leave. As in there is no option to work these days.Well I am only stating what they told me the other day. The building I work in houses my dept and 8 other private offices. 6 out of those 8 offices closed on Friday and are not open until Monday 5th Jan.
i imagine they, like me, have to take the days off in their annual leave. As in there is no option to work these days.
I don't want to sound all "civil servants are wasters etc" but what i do think is that they do not have a grasp of private sector as much as they think they do. Check over on educationposts this morning and there is a teacher asking are they entitled to a "moving day with paid sub" like, hello missus get into the real world!
The reality to me is that there are senior civil servants who look at budgets as pocket money and don't really care if they are squandered and come up with rediculus perks for employees because they believe the private sector get them. For example: paying someone's estate agents fees if when they take up a transfer they wish to buy a house or sell their existing house - in all fairness, did they apply for the job or were they begged?This may happen in pribvate sector if someone is headhunted because their skills are in need and they need to be wooed but certainly not as a rule and absolutely not as an "entitlement". The idea that nobody was interviewing for civil and public service jobs during the celtic tiger is rubbish, they were valued as job with fantastic benefits just as much as they are now.
every company I have come across every day (not a public holiday) will be taken from annual leave.